World Athletics Championships 2015/800 m women

World Athletics Championships 2015
discipline	Women's 800-meter run
city	Beijing
place	Beijing National Stadium
Participants	45 athletes from 32 countries
Competition phase	August 26, 2015 (preliminary) August 27, 2015 (semi-finals) August 29, 2015 (final)
Medalists
gold	Maryna Arsamassawa ( BLR )
silver	Melissa Bishop ( CAN )
bronze	Eunice Jepkoech Sum ( KEN )

Night panorama of the
Beijing National Stadium

The women's 800-meter run at the 2015 World Athletics Championships took place in Beijing , People's Republic of China , on August 26, 27 and 29, 2015 .

It won the Belarusian Maryna Arsamassawa . Vice world champion was the Canadian Melissa Bishop , bronze went to Eunice Jepkoech Sum from Kenya.

Records

World record	Jarmila Kratochvílová	1: 53.28 min	Munich , Federal Republic of Germany (now Germany )	July 26, 1983
Championship record		1: 54.68 min	World Cup in Helsinki , Finland	August 9, 1983

Prelims

From the six preliminary runs, the first three of each run - highlighted in light blue - and also the six fastest - highlighted in light green - qualified for the semifinals.

Run 1

August 26, 2015, 10:25 am (4:25 am CEST )

The Indian Tintu Lukka was eliminated as seventh of her preliminary run

The Ethiopian Habitam Alemu did not reach the final with her seventh place in the second heat

Janet Busienei failed as fourth in her preliminary round in the preliminary round

The Jamaican Natoya Goule did not make the next round as fourth of her heat

Despite a personal best of the season, the Icelander Aníta Hinriksdóttir retired after finishing fifth in her preliminary run

space	Surname	country	Time (min)
1	Maryna Arsamassawa	Belarus	1: 58.69 SB
2	Lynsey Sharp	Great Britain	1: 58.98 SB
3	Caster Semenya	South Africa	1: 59.59 SB
4th	Natalija Lupu	Ukraine	1: 59.62 SB
5	Christina Hering	Germany	2: 00.36
6th	Molly Beckwith-Ludlow	United States	2: 00.70
7th	Tintu Lukka	India	2: 00.95 SB
8th	Aye aye aung	Myanmar	2: 37.51

Run 2

August 26, 2015, 10:33 am (4:33 am CEST )

space	Surname	country	Time (min)
1	Eunice Jepkoech Sum	Kenya	1: 59.67
2	Olha Lyachowa	Ukraine	1: 59.92 PB
3	Sifan Hassan	Netherlands	1: 59.94
4th	Rénelle Lamote	France	2: 00.20
5	Charline Mathias	Luxembourg	2: 01.36
6th	Flavia De Lima	Brazil	2: 01.76
7th	Habitam Alemu	Ethiopia	2: 03.19

Run 3

August 26, 2015, 10:41 am (4:41 am CEST )

space	Surname	country	Time (min)
1	Rababe Arafi	Morocco	2: 00.37 PB
2	Fiona Benson	Canada	2: 00.53
3	Brenda Martinez	United States	2: 00.54
4th	Angie Petty	New Zealand	2: 00.62
5	Yevgenia Subbotina	Russia	2: 01.50
6th	Zhao Jing	People's Republic of China	2: 03.08 SB
7th	Donna Koniel	Papua New Guinea	2: 12.51
DNS	Amela Terzić	Serbia

Run 4

August 26, 2015, 10:49 am (4:49 am CEST )

space	Surname	country	Time (min)
1	Sofia Ennaoui	Poland	2: 01.16
2	Rose Mary Almanza	Cuba	2: 01.33
3	Lucia Klocová	Slovakia	2: 01.35
4th	Janeth Jepkosgei Busienei	Kenya	2: 01.40
5	Simoya Campbell	Jamaica	2: 01.43
6th	Esther Guerrero	Spain	2: 02.64
7th	Ciara Everard	Ireland	2: 03.98

Run 5

August 26, 2015, 10:57 am (4:57 am CEST )

space	Surname	country	Time (min)
1	Fabienne Kohlmann	Germany	2: 01.42
2	Joanna Jóźwik	Poland	2: 01.62
3	Shelayna Oskan-Clarke	Great Britain	2: 01.72
4th	Natoya Goule	Jamaica	2: 02.37
5	Déborah Rodríguez	Uruguay	2: 02.46
6th	Noélie Yarigo	Benin	2: 02.48
7th	Alysia Montaño	United States	2: 09.57
8th	Andrea Foster	Guyana	2: 17.39

Run 6

August 26, 2015, 11:05 a.m. (11:05 a.m. CEST )

space	Surname	country	Time (min)
1	Melissa Bishop	Canada	2: 00.23
2	Selina Büchel	Switzerland	2: 00.25
3	Malika Akkaoui	Morocco	2: 00.37 SB
4th	Jennifer Meadows	Great Britain	2: 00.70
5	Aníta Hinriksdóttir	Iceland	2: 01.01 SB
6th	Anastasia Tkachuk	Ukraine	2: 01.07
7th	Margaret Nyairera Wambui	Kenya	2: 03.52

Semifinals

From the three semi-finals, the first two of each run - highlighted in light blue - and the two fastest times - highlighted in light green - qualified for the final.

Run 1

The Swiss Selina Büchel missed the final by one place as third in the first heat

The German Fabienne Kohlmann reached the semi-finals, but retired there in fourth place in her race despite a time under two minutes

Fifth place in the third semifinals and a time of less than two minutes were not enough for Dutch rider Sifan Hassan to take part in the final

August 27, 2015, 8:05 p.m. (2:05 p.m. CEST )

space	Surname	country	Time (min)
1	Rababe Arafi	Morocco	1: 58.55 PB
2	Natalija Lupu	Ukraine	1: 58.57 SB
3	Selina Büchel	Switzerland	1: 58.63
4th	Fabienne Kohlmann	Germany	1: 59.42
5	Sofia Ennaoui	Poland	2: 00.11 PB
6th	Brenda Martinez	United States	2: 00.27
7th	Jennifer Meadows	Great Britain	2: 00.53
8th	Caster Semenya	South Africa	2: 03.18

Run 2

August 27, 2015, 8:12 p.m. (2:13 p.m. CEST )

space	Surname	country	Time (min)
1	Shelayna Oskan-Clarke	Great Britain	1: 58.86 PB
2	Rénelle Lamote	France	1: 58.86 PB
3	Olha Lyachowa	Ukraine	1: 58.94 PB
4th	Angie Petty	New Zealand	1: 59.53
5	Fiona Benson	Canada	1: 59.59 PB
6th	Rose Mary Almanza	Cuba	2: 00.38
7th	Molly Beckwith-Ludlow	United States	2: 00.43
8th	Christina Hering	Germany	2: 00.81

Run 3

August 27, 2015, 8:21 pm (2:21 pm CEST )

space	Surname	country	Time (min)
1	Melissa Bishop	Canada	1: 57.52 NO
2	Maryna Arsamassawa	Belarus	1: 57.54 PB
3	Eunice Jepkoech Sum	Kenya	1: 57.56
4th	Joanna Jóźwik	Poland	1: 58.35 PB
5	Sifan Hassan	Netherlands	1: 58.50
6th	Malika Akkaoui	Morocco	1: 59.03 SB
7th	Lucia Klocová	Slovakia	1: 59.14 SB
8th	Lynsey Sharp	Great Britain	1: 59.33

final

August 29, 2015, 7:15 p.m. local time (1:15 p.m. CEST )

The favorites for this race were primarily the reigning world champion Eunice Jepkoech Sum, the Belarusian European champion Maryna Arsamassawa and the Briton Lynsey Sharp as vice European champion in 2014 and European champion in 2012 . Sharp, however, was already eliminated in the semifinals. The 2012 Olympic champion Caster Semenya from South Africa was also among the participants. However, she was not in the form of her Olympic victory and, like Sharp, was already eliminated in the semifinals.

Sum took the lead right from the start and ran the first two hundred meters very briskly. But the pace slowed down a bit afterwards, the field was packed together. Only the Moroccan Rababe Arafi had left a gap with her slow start, which she closed again in the second corner. After one lap, Sum continued to lead - 59.10 seconds in the meantime, so not too fast - ahead of Arsamassawa and the French Rénelle Lamote. The field was still completely together. On the back straight, Arsamassawa lay down next to Sum, while Canadian Melissa Bishop took third place ahead of Lamote.

In the finish curve, Arsamassawa increased the pace, at short notice there was a small gap to her pursuers, which was quickly closed by Sum and the field behind. At the end of the bend, the leading three - Arsamassawa, Sum and Bishop - had separated a little from their competitors and only they were fighting for the medals on the home straight. European champion Maryna Arsamassawa prevailed in the end and won the world title ahead of the surprisingly strong Melissa Bishop. Defending champion Eunice Jepkoech Sum won the bronze medal. Rababe Arafi took fourth place ahead of British Shelayna Oskan-Clarke and Ukrainian Natalija Lupu. Joanna Jóźwik from Poland came in seventh, while Rénelle Lamote, who had been in front for a long time, came eighth. All eight runners undercut the two-minute mark.

space	Athlete	country	Time (min)
	Maryna Arsamassawa	Belarus	1: 58.03
	Melissa Bishop	Canada	1: 58.12
	Eunice Jepkoech Sum	Kenya	1: 58.18
04th	Rababe Arafi	Morocco	1: 58.90
05	Shelayna Oskan-Clarke	Great Britain	1: 58.99
06th	Natalija Lupu	Ukraine	1: 58.99
07th	Joanna Jóźwik	Poland	1: 59.09
08th	Rénelle Lamote	France	1: 59.70

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  World champion Maryna Arsamassawa, Belarus

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  Vice World Champion Melissa Bishop, Canada

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  Bronze medalist Eunice Sum from Kenya

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  The Moroccan Rababe Arafi reached fourth place in the final

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  Fifth place for the Briton Shelayna Oskan-Clarke

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  The Ukrainian Natalija Lupu came in sixth place

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  The Polish Joanna Jóźwik finished seventh

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  The French Rénelle Lamote was eighth in this final

Web links and sources

• Homepage for the 2015 World Championships, 800 m women on the IAAF website (English), accessed on November 6, 2018
• Results of the 2015 World Championships at Leichtathletik.de, accessed on November 6, 2018
• Reports on the 2015 World Championships at Leichtathletik.de, accessed on November 6, 2018

Video

• Melissa Bishop / Women 800m Final - Track & Field - IAAF world championships 2015 on youtube.com, published on August 30, 2015, accessed on November 6, 2018